Wowhead Weekly #56, Mystery Items in WoW

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Another Warlords example is the Voidtalon of the Dark Star. This mount was teased in a Patch 6.1 video preview as a difficult mount to obtain, but it took players a few days on live servers to discover how the portals worked. It was not found during the 6.1 PTR.

There are other ways Blizzard tries to prolong surprises in the data.

There have been NPCs added into the game with misleading names that are later changes to the correct names. For example, all of the rare spawns in Draenor that drop mounts originally had Silithus-themed names. Special battle pets like Murkidan and Brightpaw were originally unused Gronnling mounts with placeholder abilities, and the Heroes of the Storm pet Graves was originally "My Special Pet."

Some items that show up in the data are also unused for several patches. For example, Sapphire Firefly and Crimsonwing Moth were added during the Warlords beta, but were only obtainable as rare spawns in Patch 6.2. The Iron Armada toys, obtainable in 6.2.2, originally showed up as non-toy tonk controllers during the beta and were mostly-forgotten about when Warlords went live.

Most times unused items are forgotten about, but a few do catch on among the community. For example, I Found Pepe! and the disguises were added months ago, but only went live last week.

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Comment by Malysef

I love these secret items that are discovered weeks after they are actually added into the game. Wish there were more like that! :)

Comment by Thom1254

on 2015-10-25T08:59:43-05:00

Any chance you will make all the Art Contest entries available as wallpaper downloads?

That would be really cool.

Comment by Calysia

on 2015-10-25T09:33:22-05:00

Dungeons spread over the week are much better than having to do two per day...not everyone can play every day. Spreading them over the week gives them a chance to achieve the same thing.

Comment by Sflange

on 2015-10-25T11:03:15-05:00

Any chance you will make all the Art Contest entries available as wallpaper downloads?

That would be really cool.

This

Comment by Eysimir

on 2015-10-25T12:00:01-05:00

Terky's skin is NOT from a China promotion (as Perc says in the video). The skin used to be unique for Lurky, the special EU BC Collector's Edition pet. The introduciton of Terky sadly makes Lurky less unique, so there's only one thing for us Lurky owners to do: /cry It's not like it's the first time we see theese kind of nerfs either. I remember when the Winterspring Frostsaber was nerfed multiple times. (Well spent months in Winterspring not.) The Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation grind used to be truly insane until it was utterly nerfed. Why does Blizzard have to nerf the very things people dedicate themselves most pursuing?

Comment by Infamushium

on 2015-10-25T12:46:07-05:00

Terky's skin is NOT from a China promotion (as Perc says in the video). The skin used to be unique for Lurky, the special EU BC Collector's Edition pet. The introduciton of Terky sadly makes Lurky less unique, so there's only one thing for us Lurky owners to do: /cry It's not like it's the first time we see theese kind of nerfs either. I remember when the Winterspring Frostsaber was nerfed multiple times. (Well spent months in Winterspring not.) The Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation grind used to be truly insane until it was utterly nerfed. Why does Blizzard have to nerf the very things people dedicate themselves most pursuing?

So that more people have access to it. Full on exclusivity can actually hurt the game. If there are things, excluding specific things such as pre-expansion events and removed content, that people cannot get even though they want to it can cause them to actually stop playing the game and that's money Blizzard will not receive.

It's why WoW is more casual friendly now then it was a few expansions ago.

Comment by Duappe

on 2015-10-25T13:13:16-05:00

A fun one is if you try to rename your Mr. Bigglesworth Mr. Bigglesworth to "Mrs Bigglesworth", it says "That name is reserved. Enter a new name." i find this intresting :P

Comment by kintotech

on 2015-10-25T19:12:57-05:00

A fun one is if you try to rename your Mr. Bigglesworth Mr. Bigglesworth to "Mrs Bigglesworth", it says "That name is reserved. Enter a new name." i find this intresting :P

Probably because the 'Bigglesworth' portion is what's reserved.

Comment by centurius

on 2015-10-25T19:25:47-05:00

I'd really like a gronnling battle pet.

Comment by Hrau

on 2015-10-25T19:54:26-05:00

I think the game would greatly benefit from more of these items. They can have quite an impact and bring a lot of people together. And not just toys or pets and the like, but also rare items. Look at Sealed Tome of the Lost Legion for instance. While it is a class-specific quest, it's still something that people have to work for to get. And people like doing that. I think the murloc pet hidden away in a cave - while a good idea - could've been made much better if it'd been a reward after some time investment on the part of the player. You really feel like you get rewarded for things like this if you put more work into them. And you end up respecting others that do as well, and that creates community spirit in a way that trumps a simple jaunt up to Borean Tundra. Don't get me wrong. Hidden things in the game are *very* good, and I hope they continue putting them in. In a way, I was almost sad that Pepe was stationary, really. It would've been much more enjoyable to finally find him after looking in around 30 places where he's been seen regularly, rather than simply knowing exactly where he is. :)

Comment by Aralnda

on 2015-10-25T20:30:36-05:00

will the virtual part be on youtube later? would like that since i am also working that time :(

Comment by liamis7

on 2015-10-26T04:36:49-05:00

Terky's skin is NOT from a China promotion (as Perc says in the video). The skin used to be unique for Lurky, the special EU BC Collector's Edition pet. The introduciton of Terky sadly makes Lurky less unique, so there's only one thing for us Lurky owners to do: /cry It's not like it's the first time we see theese kind of nerfs either. I remember when the Winterspring Frostsaber was nerfed multiple times. (Well spent months in Winterspring not.) The Bloodsail Buccaneers reputation grind used to be truly insane until it was utterly nerfed. Why does Blizzard have to nerf the very things people dedicate themselves most pursuing?

uhhh... yes you could get it from EU bc collectors and only if your code was corrupted, so only a few thousend people in EU got it... but you could also get it from the china promotion...

also this item was litterally impossible to see on US servers... so to be able to get it now, is /cheer, not /cry

Comment by Kontwos

on 2015-10-26T06:09:44-05:00

A fun one is if you try to rename your Mr. Bigglesworth Mr. Bigglesworth to "Mrs Bigglesworth", it says "That name is reserved. Enter a new name." i find this intresting :P

Probably because the 'Bigglesworth' portion is what's reserved.

Yeah, it's like naming your Lion Simba or Mufasa; it won't work for likely legal reasons.

Comment by huntardy

on 2015-10-26T08:24:47-05:00

Stumbled across the Magic Bunny Hat linked to a series of events that didn't make it into the game, something to do with an Ironelf Games in Northshire/Goldshire.

Presumably this was testing for the darkmoon racing events as the concept is the same, run between 3 markers and back to start/finish line.

Comment by Duappe

on 2015-10-26T10:11:15-05:00

A fun one is if you try to rename your Mr. Bigglesworth Mr. Bigglesworth to "Mrs Bigglesworth", it says "That name is reserved. Enter a new name." i find this intresting :P

Probably because the 'Bigglesworth' portion is what's reserved.

Yeah, it's like naming your Lion Simba or Mufasa; it won't work for likely legal reasons.

Well, when i now tried to name it "ab bigglesworth" it worked, explanation? :P

Comment by triggz

on 2015-10-26T12:44:13-05:00

"Mr*" is blocked, as it is a title. Same with like "Dr *".

Comment by gibbylicious

on 2015-10-26T12:54:05-05:00

hang in there with the lazik eyes! ^___^ i got mine done a year or two ago and it took me about 3 weeks to be 100%. i was bummed out for a while and one day i just woke up and BAM! perfect vision :)

Comment by thekiwi

on 2015-10-26T15:21:23-05:00

A fun one is if you try to rename your Mr. Bigglesworth Mr. Bigglesworth to "Mrs Bigglesworth", it says "That name is reserved. Enter a new name." i find this intresting :P

Probably because the 'Bigglesworth' portion is what's reserved.

Yeah, it's like naming your Lion Simba or Mufasa; it won't work for likely legal reasons.

Well, when i now tried to name it "ab bigglesworth" it worked, explanation? :P

Mr. and Mrs. are titles. Not allowed by Blizzard naming policies. (more than likely the reason). I tried to name my brown owl Mister and it wouldn't let me either. >.>